Four hockey players from Colorado College have been reprimanded, suspended for two weeks, and placed on disciplinary probation for their turn at a team event in which the offending parties donned wigs and blackface. Yes, it's 2007, and there are still some people who don't understand that wearing makeup to look like a black person is bad.

The players divided themselves into groups and, in conjunction with this year’s theme of TV shows, picked a show to represent. Groups chose “Baywatch,” “Entourage,” “WWE,” “Scrubs” and “The Office.” The four players in question chose “Family Matters” and wore wigs and makeup.

Oh, well this isn't nearly as bad as I thought. It's not like the characters on "Family Matters" were actually black. Like Urkel for example. A black nerd? They could have at least made him good at track or something.

Anyway, this whole ugly situation could have been avoided if the team had just picked different TV shows, or at least assigned the black players on the hockey team to dress up as the Family Matters characters. There are black players on the hockey team, right?

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I think it is getting overlooked that 4 of them dressed up as "Entourage". Shouldn't GLAAD be pissed?

10.17.07 at 3:17 pm

hardawayhatesyou

I wonder if any of the team members dressed up as Jaime Foxworth, aka Judy Winslow, aka 'Crave' the porn star.

10.17.07 at 3:17 pm

Blackcapricorn

Yes, it's 2007, and there are still some people who don't understand that wearing makeup to look like a black person is bad.

So what you are saying is black people are bad right?

10.17.07 at 3:17 pm

Bloof

Yeah, only black people can have black faces.

10.17.07 at 3:19 pm

doogieinrichmond

Thank God they didn't pick Different Strokes and one of them dress up as Dana Plato!

10.17.07 at 3:19 pm

Anonymous

Humdinger! We had coloreds at Iowa…they can run REAL fast.

10.17.07 at 3:20 pm

Hercules Rockefeller

Valley Hi is a fun little course.

/dick joke.

10.17.07 at 3:20 pm

Pauly

The only black person on the hockey team is the puck.

10.17.07 at 3:20 pm

doogieinrichmond

What if you are dating a black chick? Let me go talk to Sam Malone……Say what?

10.17.07 at 3:22 pm

doogieinrichmond

Fuck an A Pauly!!! +100

10.17.07 at 3:22 pm

alumnigonzo

When asked by administration what in the world they were thinking donning blackface the players said – in unison – "Did I do that?"

10.17.07 at 3:25 pm

Angel Eyes Van Cleef (for now)

This kind of thing should rightly be frowned upon in our enlightened age but back in the more naive late 80s i was at a New Year's Eve fancy dress party where one guy wore blackface, shades and a leather jacket with dozens of neckties pinned to it. His costume? He said he was a Tycoon… and he won first prize because the judge thought he'd come as Roy Orbison.

10.17.07 at 3:27 pm

Bloof

I didn't think black players were used in hockey because the skates make everyone fast.

10.17.07 at 3:28 pm

Hugh B. Brown

According to its own website, Colorado College boasted a whopping 48 black students in 2006 (an all-time high.) It seems to me the hockey players were merely trying to increase the school's diversity.

10.17.07 at 3:31 pm

alumnigonzo

@Angel Eyes – That is horrible and fantastic. Wow.

10.17.07 at 3:32 pm

The Hero

What in the hell's diversity??

(mandatory joke…glad Iracane's not here to kill me for Anchorman)

10.17.07 at 3:33 pm

whowillsexmutombo

In their defense, they were going to go as the cast of "10 simple rules for dating my daughter", but they couldn't afford a coffin.

10.17.07 at 3:35 pm

hardawayhatesyou

@ The Hero: I believe its an old, wooden ship.

10.17.07 at 3:37 pm

UpstateUnderdog

How about have the Grambling State basketball team dress up as the cast from Growing pains and we'll call it even ?

10.17.07 at 3:38 pm

Tim

When reached for a comment one hockey player whined, "Did I do that?"

10.17.07 at 3:38 pm

alumnigonzo

@UU – Kirk Cameron supports that idea if he can take the opportunity to "shoot from the hip" and "talk about God"

10.17.07 at 3:39 pm

Big Nabs

After donning blackface, did they start dating fat white chicks? That would be way too much.

10.17.07 at 3:39 pm

jimmy

A friend told me that it turns out the dude who plays Carl is gay in real life. And not just gay but pretty flamboyantly out there gay.

I couldn't believe it. Someone then looked it up on imdb or wikipedia and confirmed it.

Knowing this I can never watch Die Hard the same way again.

10.17.07 at 3:40 pm

ChrisP

Pauly got his Carlos "Mind of" Men-steal-a on when he made that comment…

10.17.07 at 3:41 pm

whowillsexmutombo

Gay?

He prefers the company of men.

Who doesn't?

10.17.07 at 3:47 pm

Pauly

@ChrisP

It wasn't me, it was my team of comedy writers, which I just fired. You want a job? Because the way you put "steal" in Mencia was GENIUS Joe Rogan Chris!

10.17.07 at 3:57 pm

Tim

Red faced Indian fan approves.

10.17.07 at 4:03 pm

Enrico Pallazzo

Along the same revenge line, let's just allow Big John Thompson to dress as Mr. Belvedere for a week and call it a draw.

10.17.07 at 4:09 pm

Vince Mancini

Have you heard of my new stand up act where I ride a one-wheeled bike and wear black face? I call it "Minstrel Cycle"

10.17.07 at 4:16 pm

WhyDoYouAsk

If they didn't wanna get made fun of, they shouldna crossed our border illegally from Africa.

Dikembe Mutombo grew up in Africa. (Look it up – State of the Union, 2007)

10.17.07 at 4:16 pm

Swindon Lot

As a CC alumni, I am so psyched to see the Tigers showing up on my favorite sports blogs! WHOO! Oh…..right, the racism thing. Yeah…ummm….awkward. I'm sure they feel really, realy bad about that.

10.17.07 at 6:23 pm

Vercillo10

Yes Tim, I most certainly do! Now if you will excuse me, I need some tobacco.

10.17.07 at 6:29 pm

Vercillo10

On another note, I honestly do not get why this is taken as racist behaviour, so what, they dressed up as a person of different colour, I bet if they showed up in said gear without makeup, people would have asked them why had not gone "blackface" and there would be a story on how the hockey guys are "too good" for "blackface" or some shit, bunk.

-If a person dresses up as another character or person, should they not go all out, or is it now against the rules for someone to dress up as another colour on Halloween or another occasion, gay.

10.17.07 at 6:38 pm

Pauly

@ChrisP

In all seriousness, where did I boost that from? I been looking all day to no avail.

10.17.07 at 10:21 pm

Anonymous

Can I dress up as an Asian or is that taboo?

How about if I want to get dressed like King Tonga or Jimmy Superfly Snuka?

Mexicana are ok right? I mean, theyre lower on the totem pole than blacks so Im sure it is.

So just to be sure, dressing up as a nun is ok, dressing up as a catholic priest with a young boy attached to the zipper is ok but dressing as a rabbi will get me jailed and as a mullah will get me killed.

Damn, this freedom of expression thing is hard.

They got dressed as black characters from a TV show and they shouldnt have done the makeup thing?

Nice, now the PC pussies have ruined Halloween. Bastards!!

10.18.07 at 12:37 pm

I AM BATMAN

BATMAN FEELS THAT JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED TO THOSE CRAZY BLACK WANNABEES

10.18.07 at 1:50 pm

terp210

When Chris Rock was funny, he'd use words like "honky" and "cracker" in his stand-up act. In this case, what's the big deal about using blackface when your theme is the "Family Matters" TV show?

10.18.07 at 2:19 pm

Anonymous

You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Take a look at a picture of a young black child, raised in the ghetto with no parents and no hope. Then make all your disgusting racist jokes. I'll bet the first thing you pussies do when confronted by an african american male is to cower in fear. Then…act real black! Pathetic Losers.